Faculty

Primary Faculty

Paul Wesson, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease
  • Research Methods in Epidemiology
  • Social Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • HIV, health disparities, surveillance, population size estimation, sampling methods, social determinants, intersectionality
Justin White, assistant professor in UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Justin White, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
  • Global Health
  • Implementation Science
  • Lifecourse
  • Research Methods in Epidemiology
  • Social Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Health economics, behavioral risk factors, tobacco use, global health policy, behavioral economics, applied econometrics, impact evaluation


Lydia Zablotska, associate professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Lydia Zablotska, MD, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
  • Global Health

UCSF Collaborators

Secondary Faculty

Adithya Cattamanchi, MD, MAS
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Implementation Science
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Tuberculosis, Lung Disease, Health Disparities, Implementation Science
Judy Hahn, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Judith Hahn, PhD, MA
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • The use of TB prophylaxis in HIV/TB co-infected alcohol users, as well as interventions to reduce drinking and increase antiretroviral therapy adherence

Hacsi Horvath, MA
Fellow
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Medical ethics, HIV/AIDS, emerging infectious diseases, neglected tropical diseases, systematic reviews
Thomas Lietman, professor at UCSf

Thomas Lietman, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • trachoma
Saam Morshed, associate professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Saam Morshed, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Orthopaedics, trauma, post-traumatic arthritis
Mark Seielstad, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Mark Seielstad, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Genetic Epidemiology
  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • The interface of genetic epidemiology and population/anthropological genetics

Affiliate Faculty

Dhruv Kazi, MD, MS
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
  • Global Health

Research Interests:
  • Health economics, cost-effectiveness, m-health, global health, anticoagulation

Emeritus Faculty

Richard Feachem, professor at UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences

Richard Feachem, DSc, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Malaria

UCSF Collaborators
Dean Jamison, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Dean Jamison
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health

Research Interests:
  • Health economics, health policy

UCSF Collaborators
James G. Kahn, professor emeritus at UCSF

James G. Kahn, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Global Health
Sarah Macfarlane, professor emerita at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Sarah Macfarlane, PhD, MS
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Maternal and child health and nutrition, health workforce development, and strengthening information and surveillance systems

UCSF Collaborators

Dominic Montagu, DrPH, MPH, MBA
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease
  • Lifecourse
  • Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Maternal health, family planning, and abortion services in low- and middle-income countries, measurement, people-centered care, quality improvement

UCSF Collaborators
Edward Murphy, professor at UCSF

Edward L. Murphy, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Viral epidemiology as applied to transfusion safety and global health

Paul Volberding, MD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Global Health
  • Implementation Science
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • HIV/AIDS, HIV-related malignancies, antiretroviral therapy, oncology, global health, health disparities, health policy

UCSF Collaborators

Postdoc

Dakota Cintron, PhD
Postdoc
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Global Health
  • Research Methods in Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Design, Graphical Models, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Item Response Theory, Latent Variable and Structural Equation Modeling, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Monte Carlo Simulation

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